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Re:Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat by Animats on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:26AM (#43086654)
Why is NASA working on this?

The "NASA Global Climate Change" group will probably be laid off very soon.

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Re:Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat by Rebelgecko on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:48AM (#43086754)
Quite a few space missions (some of which are mentioned in the article) depend on this technology. It's useful in situations where solar isn't effective (eg the outer planets)
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Re:Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat by gregman1 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:31AM (#43086678)
The article, while informative, is somewhat outdated as it was published in 2012.
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Re:Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat by sandworm101 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:47AM (#43087071)
Because the relationship between heat gradients and electricity is an important part of space travel. There are no doubt countless situations where one might make use of this either to heat/cool or generate power via RTGs.
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Re:Getting a charge out of wasted automobile heat by belorn on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:51AM (#43088194)
Since everything NASA do can be used to observe global climate change, what does the NASA Global Climate Change group do?
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